TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Sunset Beach Negombo

Travel Blogs from Negombo

... hostel has finally located the item. It's too late now to go back, so I ask them to store it in a safe easily accessible place and I will return before I leave in about a month.

The day in Colombo was enough for me. It's crazy, chaotic and about as polluted as any other Asian major city. If you can, stay in Negombo. It's a tad costlier than Colombo but has a less frantic scene and is money well spent.

... the " loafing on the beach" part of the trip. We had a pleasant drive along the only stretch of motorway they have in Sri Lanka and enjoyed the increasingly tropical scenery. Each mile helped heighten our excitement and anticipation for the imminent luxury of doing sod all.

The road was practically deserted which again, after India, made a big impression on us. Our man dropped us at our destination after making a few desperate efforts to take us to snake ...

Thursday 18th December We decided to pay at some expense to take a private taxi back to Negombo; the train got into Colombo after dark and then we would have had to find a taxi which on reflection we had never actually seen at the station. It turned out to be a wise decision: the transfer was easy but finding the hotel a bit of a problem and we were very glad we were not trying to do that in the dark. The hotel, like many in ...

That copy of Private Eye ended up costing me £13.50. Cheap at half the price whatever that means. Railway trips into Negombo proper cost 5p. It's a reminder of how life used to be in the UK. Jeez, they even have two people to collect the 5p. When you think of the modernisation and ticket machines these people surely have to look forward to, it makes you very sad. And the beach costs **** all of course, with added fishermen ...

... all afternoon. We pay very little for our room which is again in someone's house. The lady is really nice and brings us a small plate of fried rice and two bananas out of the blue at night.

We also stumbled on a small kitten crying in the rain, we looked around... no mummy. Since it was an open area, we thought some people had just dumped it there so we took it inside our room for some warmth and cuddles. About ...